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While their popularity waned with the advent of advocacy and non-profit groups in the 1960s, associations were foundational to American society and representative government (e_g, Putnam, 1995; Skocpol, 2003). The mobilization of associations and their rise to prominence in the early 20th century corresponded to the first efforts at tracking lobbyists; whether and how this mobilization via large membership associations translated into direct lobbying merits study. To facilitate this analysis, the authors employ a comparative case study approach focused on three large associations that utilized direct lobbying in the states: the Grange (a . . .
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